Anti-something can denote a few slightly different things. You could say that Lex Luthor is the anti-Superman in that, while other super villains pursue some non-superman-related goals that set them on a collision course with Superman, Lex's end goal is to take him out of commission. Zod, his evil counterpart, can also be seen as the anti-Superman, like Christ/Antichrist.
Well Hades' demise is open to interpretation. Hades was conceived of as very possessive God, he treasured his souls and let no one escape his realm or steal a soul from him. I believe he was portrayed likewise in Wonder Woman so when the died, there was nothing preventing them from leaving the Underworld. Obviously Hades had power over his Kingdom but that doesn't necessarily mean he was one with it. The sun didn't stop shining when Apollo gave up the ghost.
So Poseidon anointed one of Aquaman's predecessors and went into retirement? I prefer my Space-Gods concept, I think it opens up endless story possibilities. For instance, we could have it that the aforementioned pantheons are actually different interpretations of the same divine family and immediately I can work up a really cool story of how the Amazons inspired the myth of the Valkyries when giant waves picked up a ship full of Norsemen and spew them on the shores of Themyscira.
That is true, but you seem to be sticking with the 'dark-reflection' types where the villain has the same kind of powers as the hero, but another set of morals and personality. I've 'gone a step futher' and I am looking at those who are opposite is both powers and in personalities.
If Hades' life was going like it was in the myths, I think he was portrayed as loveless and stunted. All the time he had been alone in his own realm made him incapable of understanding feelings like normal people do, so he acted as he thought was the right way to go about it... which was a bit like that of a cartoon caveman wacking a woman over the head with a club to win her heart. Regarding his relationship with his realm; how he could reshape it at a whim and appear anywhere he chose to at a moments notice and knew what was going on unless distracted. And that it fell apart when he died, I'd say Hades and realm were pretty well established to be one and the same. In regards to Apollo, you are ofc correct the sun didn't stop shining, normally I attribute that to Apollo's divine role simply having been passed onto the First Born as the one who killed him and that atleast for now the First Born had a vested interest in continuing the cycle there while not giving a hoot about people in the post-mortem department. That said, despite Moon claiming to know for certain by having felt it, there is an option that Apollo didn't actually die in his own blast, but only thrown clear of the mountain and headed into hiding.
The way I look at how the Gods work is that they are representatives, physical embodiments of things that matter to mortals. Like Apollo was the physical representative of the Sun on Earth, you wanted a word with the Sun about the light not coming to your farmlands? Go speak to Apollo, because talking to him would be the same as speaking to the Sun itself. In another fashion, the Gods are bit like the Starwars hologram-phones, the Gods are the hologram, a projection of a greater entity thats beyond your sight.
The myth about the Valkyries being inspired by the Amazons is perfectly doable under my idea as well. Poseidon is the Sea, not just the Mediterranean, he is the Atlantic, the Pacific, from the smallest lake and stream to the largest ocean, like he himself said: "There is no shore that can contain me." That said, you wouldn't need Poseidon's involvement to put Viking boots on Themyscira, they reached the Mediterranean under their own power, so you'd only need a storm to wash them up on the shores. Alternatively you could just have the Viking mercenaries that served in Constantinople be called on to engage a troop of Amazons passing through the region.
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